Cuban missile crisis 50 years on

50 years since the Cuban missile crisis

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A deactivated Soviet-era SS-4 medium range nuclear capable ballistic
missile and other Soviet-made Cold War relics are displayed at La
Cabana fortress in Havana. The
13-day missile crisis began on October 16, 1962, when then-President John
F. Kennedy first learned the Soviet Union was installing missiles in
Cuba, barely 145 km off the Florida coast. Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters

50 years since the Cuban missile crisis

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The date "October 1962" is painted on a deactivated missile at a site
displaying Soviet-made Cold War relics at La Cabana fortress in Havana
earlier this year. Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters

50 years since the Cuban missile crisis

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A wing of a US Air Force U2 reconnaissance aircraft downed by the
Soviets in Cuba in 1962 is displayed along with other Soviet-made Cold
War relics at La Cabana fortress in Havana today. Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters